The East India Company, originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and often called the Honourable East India Company, was an English and later (from 1707) British joint-stock company[1] and megacorporation formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with only the Indian subcontinent, North-west frontier province and Balochistan.
The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The Company was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1600,[2] making it the oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies. Shares of the company were owned by wealthy merchants and aristocrats. It was an example of an English joint stock company.[3] The government owned no shares and had only indirect control. The Company eventually came to rule large areas of India with its own private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions.[4] Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey and lasted until 1858 when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in the era of the new British Raj.

Could yield a very big debate… Nationality feeling comes into the picture too… lots of questions in my mind in this issue… Why would an NGO interferes in Governments activities… Is it so necessary or they think they are so powerful to drive the government…

We are all concious and we have all the rights to express our opinion and fight for our well beings… But in principle, YMA and the Church are not suppose to be pressure groups, they have their own principles. And their principles are far different from the political framworks of the state… Why would they interfere is a very big and controversial question…